Mouse alopecia areata and heart disease: Know your mouse!

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 279-281

  Sundberg, John P ^a,b   Chevallier, Lucie ^a   Silva, Kathleen A ^a   Kennedy, Victoria E ^a   Sundberg, Beth A ^a   Li, Qiaoli ^c   Uitto, Jouni ^c   King, Lloyd E ^b   Berndt, Annerose ^d  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 6;

ALOPECIA AREATA; CARDIOMEGALY; CHROMOSOME 7; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LETTER; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EID: 84890967612     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.273     Document Type: Letter

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